The Thriving Artist

The Thriving Artist


Latest Episodes

How to Build a Robust Creative Economy That Rewards Everyone—including Artists
July 26, 2022

How do we live in a robust culture? How do we produce a robust culture at a time when we are fracturing, polarized, and creative enterprise is an afterthought?

Virtual & Analog Art—Daniel DiGriz
November 26, 2021

We can have one foot in the world of visceral taste and touch and another foot in the digital world without having to split ourselves in half.

Clark Hulings—Archetype of the Independent Artist
March 24, 2021

Writer James D. Balestrieri: An artist really shouldnt care about being in the canon. They should do what they do, which is what Clark Hulings did: work at their work.

Stock Art Can Go to Hell: Corporate Art Without Compromise
January 25, 2021

I try to put everything, all of me, into the art. Melissa Whitakers workeven for collaborations with corporate clientsis always her own.

Virtualize Your Art Career: Part 2
October 13, 2020

In the second episode of this two-part podcast, Carolyn Edlund weighs-in on how artists can shift their sales strategies and build an art business that will weather these tough times, as well as being

Virtualize Your Art Career: Part 1
September 30, 2020

Carolyn Edlund is the Sales & Events Director at the Clark Hulings Foundation, and our resident subject matter expert in Sales Strategy. In the first episode of this two-part podcast, Carolyn join

Selling Art in The New Normal: Marketplace, Native Communities, and Virtual Reality
August 28, 2020

The http://market.swaia.org/ (Virtual Edition of The Santa Fe Indian Market) offers an amazing atmosphere of delight and awe at a time when most of us are cooped up in our own worlds of soci

Build Your Own Future With Or Without The Establishment
June 07, 2020

Artist Ashley Longshore has never waited for industry gatekeepers to open doors for her: she’s a wildly successful, self-made entrepreneur. Owner of The Longshore Studio Gallery in New Orleans and two

Lockdown: Artists Double Down on Building Robust Businesses and Self-Help Networks
May 01, 2020

It’s a timely moment to be interviewing the team from CERF+, a leading nonprofit focused on safeguarding artists’ livelihoods nationwide. Founded in 1985—by and for materials-based artists and craftsp

These Artists Graduated Training But are Entrepreneurs for Life
February 18, 2020

It was a total mind-shift this year. There is a market for what I want to do, and I am selling. There are buyers for the subject matter that I want to paint.